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                <h1>Creating Interactive 3D Web Maps from 3D City Models with CesiumJS</h1>
                <h3>The NCG Symposium | Geocongres MRDH | ICA workshop 2020 (Nov 5, 2020)</h3>
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        <h1>Introduction</h1>
        <p>The recent technology of virtual globe-based 3D visualization is a unique opportunity to facilitate advanced analysis and visualization tasks in a variety of application domains such as urban planning, indoor/outdoor pedestrian navigation, environmental simulations, cultural heritage, or facility management. One core data which make this concept come true is the development of the CityGML models by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC — https://www.ogc.org/). CityGML is the global data model schema for describing 3D geo-spatially-enabled urban models. There are more and more cities that provide open-source CityGML models publicly.</p>

        <img src="img/6.JPG" alt="" style="width: 800px;">
        <br>(An Expected Output from This Workshop — 3D Web App with 3D Semantic Building Models in Den Haag Area)
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        <h3>Architecture and Workflow</h3>
        <img src="img/architecture.JPG" alt="" style="width: 600px;"><br>
        The overall system architecture of the 3D web-based app is shown in the figure above. It includes four main components: CityGML dataset, 3D Tiles dataset, Web server, and Users.
        <br> <b>So, let’s get started and create each component together</b> <br>
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        <h3>Step 1: Preparing 3D City Models</h3>
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        <p>In this step, we will download the 3D city models in CityGML format. Then, convert the models to 3D Tiles
            format for optimizing the 3D web visualization. In this article, I picked the 3D city models from Den Haag
            area as it is a compact model. Of course, you are free to explore this method with any CityGML datasets.</p>
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        <li> Download the CityGML dataset from <a
                href="https://denhaag.dataplatform.nl/#/data/36049d1a-4a0f-4c5d-8adb-21dbfb7252f9"
                target="_blank">https://denhaag.dataplatform.nl/#/data/36049d1a-4a0f-4c5d-8adb-21dbfb7252f9</a> in the
            download section.</li>
        <li> Using the FME Workbench to convert the CityGML models to 3D Tiles format. Starting by opening the FME
            Workbench, Drag and drop all CityGML models to the FME window.<br>
            <img src="img/1a.JPG" alt="" style="width: 800px;"><br>
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            Select input Format "CityGML" and Workflow option "Single Merged Feature Type".<br>
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            Click on "Add a new writer" button and select Format "Cesium 3D Tiles"<br>
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            The workflow should look like following figure. Click Run and then wait until the conversion complete. Then,
            the final 3D Tile City Models will be in the destination folder you input.<br>
            <img src="img/3.JPG" alt="" style="width: 600px;"><br>

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        <h3>Step 2: Preparing HTML for CesiumJS</h3>
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        In this step, we will create an HTML web document containing the 3D Web Globe using CesiumJS library. You can
        use any code Idle or editor. In this example, I named it as denHaagApp.html. You can create the document with
        the name you like and copy the following code. Don't forget to specify the URL on line 24 to the target
        Tileset.json. If you do this for the first time, you can come back after you set up the web server in step
        three.
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        <script src="https://gist.github.com/JoeThunyathep/0a97950f69952ea13759e0f245416604.js"></script>

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        <h3>Step 3: Host the 3D Web App on the Web Server</h3>
        This steps, we will host the Web App from step 2 and the 3D Tiles city models from step 1 on the web server. You
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        are freely to use any web server of your preferences. In this example, we use the XAMPP (or Apache) open source web server.
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        (You can get it from <a
            href="https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html">https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html</a>)
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        <li>Install XAMPP or Apache.</li>
        <li>Open XAMPP Control Panel and start Apache HTTP web service. <br>Optionally, you can start the Apache manually via <code> [(part to Apache)]\apache\bin\httpd.exe </code>. Or, use Terminal to enter <code>sudo apachectl start</code> and <code>sudo apachectl stop</code> commands to start and stop Apache service.
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        <li>Place the web document (denHaagApp.html) from step 2 and a folder of 3D Tiles city models from step 1 in the
            C:\xampp\htdocs directory.<br>
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        <li>In the html web document, update the URL value to the tileset.json file of your 3D Tiles model in the htdocs
            folder. For example, if your 3D Tiles directory is at C:\xampp\htdocs\3dtile\tileset.json. You should set
            the url value to "./3dtile/tileset.json" or "http://localhost/3dtile/tileset.json" as APACHE will serve
            everything in the htdocs directory relatively to "http://localhost".
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        <h3>Step 4: Test the 3D Web App</h3>
        
            Finally, you can access your 3D web app visualizing 3D city model on your web browser at
            http://localhost/denHaagApp.html<br>
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        <hr>
        <h2>Overview of the software used</h2>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="https://cesiumjs.org/downloads/">CesiumJS</a></li>
            <li>Web Server:&nbsp;<a href="https://httpd.apache.org/">Apache HTTP Server</a>&nbsp;, is also in&nbsp;<a
                    href="https://www.apachefriends.org/de/index.html">XAMPP</a>&nbsp;included</li>
            <li>Web browser:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/new/">Firefox</a></li>
            <li>FME Workbench 2020</li>
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        <h2>Other Example Use Cases</h2>
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        <!-- <div class="card" style="width: 25rem;">
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                <h5 class="card-title">Wind Simulation Platform</h5>
                <p class="card-text">in the Cesium 3D Web Application</p>
                <a href="https://transfer.hft-stuttgart.de/pages/urbanvis/index.html" class="btn btn-primary">Go</a>
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                <h5 class="card-title">Deutschland in 3D</h5>
                <p class="card-text">3D Web Application Visualizing German Cities</p>
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        <li><a href="https://transfer.hft-stuttgart.de/pages/urbanvis/index.html">Wind Simulation Platform</a> in the Cesium 3D Web Application</li>
        <li><a href="https://steinbeis-3dps.eu/3DGeoVolumes/">3D Visualization Server</a> for hosting 3D building models created by the 3D GeoVolumes API (3D Container API)Specification</li>
        <li><a href="https://steinbeis-3dps.eu/geoportal_3diot/#/">OGC 3D IoT Pilot - Sejong, South Korea</a> with air quality sensor data (SensorThings API)</li>
        <li><a href="https://deutschland.virtualcitymap.de/#/">Deutschland in 3D</a> 3D Web Application Visualizing German Cities</li>
        <li>Explore other <a href="https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/opendata/opencities/">CityGML Datasets</a></li>
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        <h2>Copyright</h2>
        <p>The texts and images provided in the blog are under the&nbsp;<a
                href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/">CC BY 3.0 DE</a>&nbsp;license.</p>
        <h2>Author</h2>
        <b>Thunyathep Santhanavanich (JOE)</b> PhD candidate<br>
        Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Science and Mathematics, <br>University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart,
        Schellingstr. 24, D-70174 Stuttgart<br>
        <a href="mailto:thunyathep.santhanavanich@hft-stuttgart.de">thunyathep.santhanavanich@hft-stuttgart.de</a>
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